
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.Dogen
22 quotes in the QuotePlace collection contain the word ‘water’. Browse them all below — every card opens its own full quote page.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.Dogen

The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.Kamo no Chōmei

Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.Lao Tzu

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.Kabir

The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.Mencius

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.Wangari Maathai

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle.Luther Standing Bear

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.Gautama Buddha

The morning glory has taken my well bucket — I must ask the neighbors for water.Chiyo-ni
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.Lao Tzu
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.Leonardo da Vinci
I am a cloud filled with the water of sorrow.Mahadevi Varma

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.Bruce Lee

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.Rabindranath Tagore

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.Sylvia Earle

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.Rabindranath Tagore

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.Bruce Lee